Ree Lab @ The Field Museum

systematics, evolution, biogeography

systematics, evolution, biogeography

How are species related, how have they evolved, why do they
occur where they do? We study these questions mostly in
plants, especially in the Hengduan Mountains of China and
environs. We also tackle conceptual and methodological
issues in phylogenetics and macroevolution.

Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains

A specimen database of plants and fungi from
the mountains of south-central China, in long-term
collaboration with David Boufford at the Harvard University
Herbaria. Contains many photos of specimens and localities in
the field.

IVY: interactive visual phylogenetics

A Python library for
manipulating phylogenetic trees and data, with a somewhat
unique focus on visualizations that are interactive
simultaneously using a GUI (Matplotlib) and command line
(IPython).

Developed primarily for internal use in the lab (until I
find the time to write proper documentation and tutorials;
Christie has been helping with this). Meanwhile see
the source code and
the
fledgling documentation.

BLOG

Lab alum Deren Eaton will be joining the
Ecology and Evolution faculty at Columbia University in NYC! Deren's
work since leaving the lab has focused on the use of RADseq in
systematics and evolutionary research, especially via development of
pyRAD and related software.